negotiations with iran and the taliban. with bolton out, does it mean we re closer now to those things happening? well, absolutely. and you know, stephanie, there s, you know, the u.n. meetings later this month in new york city. and the trump administration seems to be almost chasing a meeting with the iranians. you know, the iranians have not indicated that they want to sit down bilaterally with president trump, but he keeps making the point that he would like to sit down with the iranians. and part of what we re seeing here is he s entering into an election year, stephanie. he s gotten a lot of balls in the air, a lot of planes that need to land here. we ve got iran resuming its nuclear program, we ve got north korea still building new nuclear weapons, the war in afghanistan is still ongoing, even though president trump promised to bring it to an end, the china trade war is escalating. he wants to get some agreements somewhere to show that he s landing some of these planes. and bol
shep, even though the tension between the president and his national security advisinger was well-known, many republicans here on capitol hill say that they were so surprised by today s news. senator marco rubio said he was surprised. here s senator lindsey graham s take away moments after the news broke. every president needs to have confidence in their national security adviser. i like john bolton. he sees the world for what it is. i ve always had a similar view of the threats that we face. but the personal relationship between the president and the national security adviser is important. but there s other republicans like senator rand paul says good riddens. he says with bolton out, the chances of a world war will go down. he wants bolton s replacement
leadership to deescalate. those are not the two people you calming it down the fact we re sitting here talking about bolton running the show may be the surest way to get bolton out of there. anytime you have steve bannon on the cover of time magazine or jared kushner on the cover of forbes it s like the worst thing to do in front of stalin was compliment one of his generals. so bolton s a genius. mr. president, because we know he wafrnz this show, john bolton s looking really tough, man. it s nice that you were a little on the softer side, a little bit on the limper side with him, you that didn t let him be as strong and as powerful as he wanted to be. so it s good that you were kind of the soft guy there. before we go, i asked you off camera do you speak to obama. you said all the time. and i said how s he feeling about this? you know, in this case i won t be a spokesperson for him. look, i think for him here s what i do know. we made this argument back in
trump or iranians to deescalate. the fact that we re sitting here talking about bolton running the show may be the suresur surest way to get bolton out of there. anytime you have steve bannon or jared kushner on the cover of forbes. comp he tweeted us. mr. president, john bolton s looking really tough, man. it s nice that you were a little on the softer side, a little bit on the limper side with him. that you didn t let him be as strong and as powerful as he wanted to be. it s good that you were the soft guy there. and before we go i asked you off camera did you speak to obama and you lds the time and i said how is he feeling about this? for him here s what i do know. i m a father. we made this argument back in
administration had done in iran and being tougher on north korea. these are things that john bolton really speaks to and appeals to. also important to note, john bolton is a contributor for fox news. this president happens to really be into a lot of the television commentators he sees. a lot of people who he sees on television, he regards as authoritiesle. and it just so happens john bolton is a very intelligent person and does have a very long career in foreign policy, but he s someone that the president also sees on a daily basis on television at fox news. and so he has always been on the president s mind. john bolton was somebody that the president spoke to during the transition and has repeatedly revisited for a post in this administration. let s go back to joy, wasn t he camped out at the door for a long time by john kelly? yeah, john kelly was pretty much the door keeper, but we re starting to see that lessen a little bit. he can t keep bolton out, bolton is now his colleag